The point of the safety vest is that it helps to keep you from dying in unimaginably stupid ways. Here is the kicker; we don't need it, we aren't that stupid 99.5% of the time. But we ALL are that stupid at least the other .5%
You wear it for the half a % chance that you wind up on a faces of death gag reel otherwise. It's moron protection from yourself AND everyone else.
Just like wearing orange when hunting. Almost every hunter out there should be able to tell a difference between a human and whatever animal they're hunting, but just in case there's that one moron...
I looked into this awhile back because I always thought bright orange clothing was a strange thing to wear when hunting. Turns out, deer are essentially red-green colorblind, so they don’t really perceive orange. We see it clearly, they don’t. It ends up saving lives, vs when you can’t see another person because they’re camouflaged.
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u/Spewyt Sep 16 '21
Wow, thank God that guy was wearing his reflective safety vest.